I can confirm that replacing "DEFAULT" by "default" makes the error message go away in my setup too, but recording still fails.
After I stop recording gtk-recordmydesktop uses 100% CPU and processes forever until killed. No video file is created. lspci | grep Audio 00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) 01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV770 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4850/4870] Pulse audio is running (sadly). Desktop: Gnome-Shell Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org